The invention relates to an apparatus for projecting a moving or still stereo or multichannel image (IM), said apparatus comprising at least a first (R) and at least a second (L) video projector, or the like, for projecting images intended for the left and the right eye of a viewer (H) alternately in time and in synchronization with the function of shutter glasses (G) or the like worn by the viewer. According to the invention, said video projectors are liquid crystal video projectors (PI) in which liquid crystal video projectors (PI) the illuminating, and thereby image-projecting light source (FP) of the liquid crystal matrix (LC) is a light source (FP) that produces light in a pulsed manner, the pulsing of said light source (FP) being arranged to occur in synchronization with the presentation of images. The pulsing of light sources according to the invention enables the projection of high-quality stereo image by means of affordable liquid crys-tal video projectors functioning at the normal image frequency.
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1. An apparatus for projecting a moving or still image comprising at least two channels, said apparatus comprising at least a first and at least a second video projector, for projecting images intended for the left and the right eye of a viewer alternately in time and in synchronization with the function of shutter glasses worn by the viewer, wherein video projectors are liquid crystal video projectors in which liquid crystal video projectors the illuminating and thereby image-projecting light source of a liquid crystal matrix is a light source that produces light in a pulsed manner, the pulsing of said light source being arranged to occur in synchronization with the presentation of images in such a manner that when the right-eye shutter of the shutter glasses worn by the viewer is open, the light power of the light source of at least the second projector projecting the image intended for the left eye is turned off and the light power of the light source of at least the first projector projecting the image intended for the right eye is turned on in a pulsed manner, and correspondingly when the left-eye shutter of the shutter glasses worn by the viewer is open, the light power of the light source of at least the first projector projecting the image intended for the right eye is turned off and the light power of the light source of at least the second projector projecting the image intended for the left eye is turned on in a pulsed manner.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the light sources used in the liquid crystal video projectors are flash tubes or flash lamps based on electric discharge.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the light sources are flash tubes or flash lamps based on electric discharge, in which a constant excitation current flows between the electrodes of the lamp, and the actual discharge that produces the light power is attained by instantaneously increasing the current supplied to the lamp.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is arranged to show two or several viewers a stereo image in such a manner that each viewer is shown a different image.
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